Russ Huber Posted October 21, 2024 Posted October 21, 2024 (edited) I have had 'borderline' bearing noise issues with a 06 GE pancake with recent intention to sell. Not bad...not good enough. I have restored GE cakes in the past with new bearings made and they have run sweet as pie. A fine-tuned GE cake is a quiet excellent bedroom or family room fan. If you have a GE cake with a worn rotor shaft where it rides on the bearings, this is one approach to removing the shaft to have a new one machined and get you back on factory fresh track. 🙂 I used a drift punch to drive out the pin holding the rear collar to release the shaft and tapped out the shaft rear to front using a hard plastic tipped hammer. Edited October 21, 2024 by Russ Huber 2 Quote
Russ Huber Posted October 21, 2024 Author Posted October 21, 2024 BTW...that pin in the rear collar may not be easy to spot. Mine was hard to spot unless you looked carefully. 1 Quote
Michael Barttelbort Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I'm getting ready to clean up a rotor and see this one that looks great - how did you clean up this one-and is that copper/ black paint -that just painted on the ends? thanks mike Quote
Russ Huber Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 56 minutes ago, Michael Barttelbort said: how did you clean up this one-and is that copper/ black paint -that just painted on the ends? I have a 6" FINE wire wheel on a bench grinder. I used this to get the rotor body down to bare metal. I used a pistol cleaning rod with correct diameter brass/steel bristle brush to clean the holes in the rotor body down to bare metal. I masked off the rotor shaft and used Van's cold bluing with rubber gloves and a soaked application rag to gun blue the rotor body. I then masked off the rotor body exposing the areas painted in Rust-oleum Metallic Copper spray paint. I let the copper paint set and then removed the masking only from the rotor body. The shaft remained masked. I then used Sprayon electrical insulating varnish evenly covering the entire rotor body which acts like a clear coat over the copper finish and seals the gun blued areas from moisture and oxidation. Use your imagination. Quote
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